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# Typesetting the LaTeX way

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## Summary

The post discusses the author's love for typesetting and the use of LaTeX to achieve beautiful type appearance. It highlights the work of Christian Perfect on enabling Computer Modern fonts on the web and Bram Stein's implementation of the Knuth Plass algorithm for text justification. The post also mentions the use of Bram's hypher package for hyphenation in CSS justified text.

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